Mail art.

For the last few years I have been involved in variety of mail art exchanges through the wonderful art community on http://www.atcsforall.com/. Artists trade ATCs, chunky book pages (4x4in), Art post cards, Art dolls, etc. Currently I am hosting a Fat book pages Hand painted “Winter scenery” SWAP there.

The idea of the SWAP is to collect miniature art samples from different artists and to share our techniques / unique styles with each other. Page size is 5×4 in with the actual painting 4x4in (1in margin on the left side is needed for binding these pages into book). The term “Fat book” was already used in the website, but I did not find any specific descriptions of this miniature art book category through the internet research.

Right now my Fat book has 17 pages and is getting fatter . For the pages SWAP each artist has to create 3 pages-original paintings in certain medium / given theme.

My 2 finished pages for Winter scenery SWAP were done in acrylics. I decided to paint all 5x4in surface, even only 4x4in square is required to be as a finished art sample. You will see why.

About Artfully imperfect

Oksana Tepp was born in Ukraine. Currently resides in USA, Washington state. Married, mother of three sons. Native Russian speaker. Russian Language Instructor and translator/interpreter by former education/profession.
Full time mixed media artist since 2010.